by Jaculynn Peterson on 2009/01/27
by Jaculynn Peterson on 2009/01/22
“RSS to the enterprise is a bit like one of those nano-needles to a single-cell micro-organism. Puncture the corporate membrane and its life drains away.
Enterprises are scared to disrupt their own structure and command lines by introducing uncontrolled information flows both internally (which can route around management) and externally (which can route around the official PR outputs and sales inputs of the company).”
AN ASIDE: Have you seen SuggestRSS? It’s a cool web app – currently in Beta – that suggests new RSS feeds for you.
AND ANOTHER: Check out CopyGator, which will locate your blog content that’s been republished in the blogosphere – with or without your permission and knowledge. Thanks to ReadWriteWeb.
by Jaculynn Peterson on 2009/01/16
This is a true story. It’s one of many that occurs every minute – by the hundreds, if not thousands – on the Internet Social Web.
Today I answered some questions posed by users on LinkedIn. Answering questions is a great way to network, grow your business, and establish yourself as a thought leader and credible resource in the industry. Or you can simply answer questions to be nice…and to give back to the Social Web, which gives so much to us 24/7, for free, and asks for nothing in return. My motivation at the time was the latter. Here’s a question that I answered (click on image to read it):
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by Jaculynn Peterson on 2009/01/15
It seems just like yesterday when “design usability” was all the rage. I recall it was right around the time of the dot-com crash, with ecommerce sites folding like a bad poker hand, that “usability” became royalty. Companies that were eagerly rolling out the red carpet during those tough times were often the same ones that wouldn’t acknowledge usability during the good times.
With a proven reputation in retail circles, the principles of web usability ultimately pervaded the corporate world – where guru Jakob Nielsen became a household name. The web world was getting it. Design and usability were very important. [click to continue…]
by Jaculynn Peterson on 2009/01/04
